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David Peace Books in Order

David Peace has written 12 books, published between 1999 and 2024. The first book is Nineteen Seventy Four (1999) and the newest is Munichs (2024). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
12
Published
1999–2024
Pages on record
1,075 in 2 of 12 books
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Photo of David Peace, author

David Peace, born in 1967, is an English writer whose Red Riding Quartet appeared between 1999 and 2002. Granta placed Peace on its 2003 list of the Best of Young British Novelists. GB84 (2004), The Damned Utd (2006) and Red or Dead (2013) are among the UK-set novels Peace is known for, and mental breakdown under extreme pressure is a recurring theme. The catalogue holds 12 books from Nineteen Seventy Four (1999) to Munichs (2024), and names the Tokyo Trilogy as a series; Tokyo Year Zero and Occupied City are listed titles. Subject tags list police, serial murders, Liverpool Football Club and England.

How many David Peace books are there?

David Peace has 12 books, released between 1999 and 2024. They include 2 series and 5 titles listed outside any series.

David Peace Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 12 David Peace books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Tokyo Year Zero by David Peace, book 1 of the Tokyo Trilogy (2007)
  2. Cover of Red or Dead by David Peace (2013)
  1. 1
    Nineteen Seventy FourRed Riding Quartet #11999 · confirmed 1/4
    1999–
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  2. 2
    Nineteen Seventy SevenRed Riding Quartet #22000 · confirmed 1/4
    2000–
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  3. 3
    Nineteen EightyRed Riding Quartet #32001 · confirmed 1/4
    2001–
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  4. 4
    Nineteen Eighty ThreeRed Riding Quartet #42002 · confirmed 1/4
    2002–
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  5. 5
    GB842004 · confirmed 1/4
    2004–
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  6. 6
    The Damned Utd2006 · confirmed 1/4
    2006–
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  7. 7
    Tokyo Year ZeroTokyo Trilogy #12007 · 355 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2007355
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  8. 8
    Occupied CityTokyo Trilogy #22009 · confirmed 1/4
    2009–
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  9. 9
    Red or Dead2013 · 720 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013720
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  10. 10
    Patient X2018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  11. 11
    Tokyo ReduxTokyo Trilogy #32021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  12. 12
    Munichs2024 · confirmed 1/4
    2024–
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David Peace books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Red Riding Quartet in order

4 books
  1. 1. Nineteen Seventy Four
  2. 2. Nineteen Seventy Seven
  3. 3. Nineteen Eighty
  4. 4. Nineteen Eighty Three

Tokyo Trilogy in order

3 books
  1. 1. Tokyo Year Zero
  2. 2. Occupied City
  3. 3. Tokyo Redux

Standalone books

5 books

5 David Peace titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read David Peace books in order?

You only need to read David Peace books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with David Peace

Start with Nineteen Seventy Four (1999), the earliest published title.

What is the newest David Peace book?

Munichs (2024) is the newest David Peace book released so far.

Is there a new David Peace book coming?

No next David Peace book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Awards David Peace has won

Wikidata records 1 award for David Peace. Each row states whether the title won or was shortlisted, and the year the award was given.

  • James Tait Black Memorial Prize2004Won

David Peace at a glance

Still publishing
David Peace published a book as recently as 2024.
Release pace
David Peace books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
Length
1,075 pages across the 2 of 12 books with a recorded length, a median of 538 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most David Peace books, 7 of 12, were published in the 2000s.

What the David Peace books are about

2 of the 12 David Peace books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. No subject is tagged on more than one of them, so each one below describes a single book. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.